Annual Meeting

Robots for Accessibility: Help Henry Spread the Word

By Elizabeth Merritt

AAM conference attendees were joined in Seattle by Henry Evans, accessibility advocate and founder of Robots for Humanity.Henry joined us via a Beam Pro telepresence robot (courtesy of Suitable Technologies). Because he is quadriplegic, …
Your Guide to the Future at the 2014 Annual Meeting

By Elizabeth Merritt

It’s time for my yearly list of “sessions I would go to if I weren’t helping to run the meeting.” (And remember, if you aren’t going to the conference, you can still sign up to visit MuseumExpo via telepresence robot, courtesy of Suitable …
The Internet of Future Things in Seattle

By Elizabeth Merritt

Here is a preview of part 3 of CFM’s “glimpse of the future” demo at the annual meeting in Seattle. It’s a little installation I’m calling “The Internet of Future Things,” and came about through the collision of location-aware tech with …
Building the Future of Education: A Call to Action

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’m pleased to announce the release of Building the Future of Education: Museums and the Learning Ecosystem. This report shares the great content and provocative ideas that bubbled up in a convening AAM co-organized with The Henry Ford …
Museums in a Common Core World

By Elizabeth Merritt

Over the course of the summer, the CFM Blog is featuring posts based on sessions called out in this year’s Guide to the Future at the Alliance Annual Meeting. Today we hear from Naomi Coquillon, Manager, Youth and Teacher Programs in the …
What Movie is your Museum?

By Elizabeth Merritt

Everyone wants to know the secret to running a successful museum. Anne Bergeron and Beth Tuttle tackled that question in a new book from the AAM Press Magnetic: The Art and Science of Engagement. Bergeron is associate director for external …
Exploring the Edge of Innovation in Seattle

By Elizabeth Merritt

The Call for Proposals for the Alliance annual meeting is now open. First piece of news: the theme is (drum roll) “The Innovation Edge.” Second piece of news: forget the first piece of news. It doesn’t matter. Well, it does matter to us, …
Ethics Smackdown: For the Resolution

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is the fourth and (for now) final installment of our report on the debate held at the Alliance in May regarding the future of museum ethics. In today’s post, James Bradburne, director of the Palazzo Strozzi in Firenze, Italy, makes …
Ethics Smackdown: Against the Resolution

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is the third installment in our report from the Ethics Smackdown at the Alliance annual meeting, debating whether museums should loosen the ethics restrictions governing the use of funds resulting from the sale of deaccessioned …
Ethics Smackdown: Preamble

By Elizabeth Merritt

Last week I wrote about the Ethics Smackdown that took place at the Alliance annual meeting last month. This week, Sally Yerkovich, director of the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University and moderator of the debate, sets the …